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How is a 10-year-old girl caught masturbating automatically a lesbian defamer.com?

Adolescence is never easy and when you have a shitty mother like Betty Draper, it’s even worse. Don is also trying to bring his new firm into adulthood, but not without growing pains. It’s tough for those Mad Men kids. On last night’s episode, we had parallel story lines about future lesbian Sally Draper being a difficult 10 year-old and Sterling Cooper Draper Price struggling to reach financial maturity.

It continues:

But the one who really gets yelled at is future lesbian Sally Draper, who cut her hair while she was with Phoebe the sitter while Don was out on his third date with Bethany (who we saw in the season premiere).

She says she wants to look pretty and have short hair like Phoebe so that her father will like her too. Also, she’s a lesbian in the making, of course she wants short hair!

This must be an odd rant about something I can’t figure out. I’d love to know what the reactionary weirdness is to a young girl discovering her body, and at that age wanting to be beautiful like she thinks her father likes while she’s traumatized by her ruthless mother and divorce of her parents. This is far too complex of an issue to blatantly assign gender preference. Really, what tha… ?

I will put this in an American perspective, and following that, a global perspective.

If you’re in need in the United States, in order to get a job, feed your family, receive public assistance, or get a bank account, you must have a PHYSICAL home address and – for a job – a valid phone number.

Since social media began to embed itself into our day-to-day lives, it has proven to be helpful in the most tragic, joyful, and heartbreaking of situations. And, we can’t let it sit. Our country – or any other – can not let it stand when ANYone gets in the way of what the internet can philanthropically do. Pakistan is in trouble. Haiti continues to struggle. We continue to struggle. It can’t sit.

It just can’t.

Net Neutrality please.

(UPDATE: I assure you, if it weren’t for the internet and social media, if I disappeared no one but my dog, bosses, or mother would no I was missing. By, then it would be too late.)

“Look down. Back up. Where are you? You’re watching Daniel Freilich, a challenger to Senator Patrick Leahy in the Vermont Democratic primary next week, harness the power of Youtube with a campaign ad parody of this year’s now legendary Old Spice Man commercial.“

The House of Representatives bravely dragged themselves back to Capitol Hill from their traditional six weeks of stateside work-cation to lock down teachers union votes for November’s elections today. The Senate had already passed a version of the $26 billion jobs bill, which includes $10 billion in grants to districts to keep up to 130,000 education jobs on life support.

Because, of course, no one needs teachers at school. Darn union thugs! I dunno, home school your kids, I guess, if you have the time and ability to do so. But, I’d gather those ‘poor folks’ don’t really have that option since many of them – hailed by G.W. Bush as fantastic and have more than one job – do not.

Obviously, cutting the food stamp program when it’s needed is irresponsible on the part of the Democrats.

Wow, right?

One job ago I qualified for both food stamps and a visit to the food bank. However, I have NO CHILDREN. While I appreciated the supplemental help from the food bank, I didn’t take advantage of SNAP. There wasn’t much need. Also … NO KIDS!

Children qualify for free lunch programs at SCHOOL. This is funded by the government in public schools as far as I know. There are programs such as WIC that, while not perfect, DO help with assistance for providing food for kids. And, what about all those charities and churches Republicans love to talk about? (Meanwhile, ACTUAL charities and not for profits are being targeted rather than groups like the Media Research Center.)

These are helpful things for those with or without children, but what I cannot fathom is the right now DECRYING the fact that more money is going toward paying for educating the people who will inherit this country (while they constantly complain that we’re bankrupting them financially) while the institution has set in place ways to care for children. I can’t fathom how they will deprive the unemployed of benefit extensions, and accuse those in need of drug abuse, etc., while screaming bloody murder that food stamp funding is cut a bit in 2013.

This is new (well, certainly odd). This is different (well, certainly a 180). And, this is a strange (well, certainly typical) twist in the political atmosphere – all things considered.

Funny thing is, it’s not really a cut, it’s just not a hike. It’s actually humorous all the ‘outrage.’

If Gov. Rick Perry wants $830 million in emergency federal assistance for Texas schools approved by Congress and signed into law Tuesday, he’ll have to abide by restrictions imposed by House Democrats and written exclusively for the Lone Star State.

You can’t alter the history books for a lot of the country and also ask for education grants.

Why should the U.S. Government grant this wish? It probably will but that’s not the point. (Please don’t tell me you’ll pick up the new Einstein conspiracy theory?)

But, don’t you DARE ask for more funding for education when you refuse to educate the people who will educate the country.